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Chapter 1 Studying Adult Development and Aging Flashcards

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Biological Forces Of Development

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Genetics and Health Factors

Example- wrinkling, menopause

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Chronological Age

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Time since birth, Your actual age

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Biological Age

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Functional Age , How well your vital systems function

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Psychological Age

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Your ability to adapt to the changing environmental demands around you

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Sociocultural /Social Age

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Set of roles individuals adopt in relation to other members of society and culture

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Subjective/ Perceived Age

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How old you feel

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The Biopsychosocial Perspective

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View of development as a complex interaction of biological , psychological and social processes

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Psychological Forces of Development

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Internal perceptual, cognitive, emotion, personality

(thoughts, feelings, behaviours related to growing older

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Sociocultural Forces of Development

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Interpersonal, societal, cultural, ethnic, history

The social context of which we develop up in

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Life-Cycle Forces of Development

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How the same event or combination of biological, psychological and sociocultural forces affect people at different points in life.
Example- grey hair, losing hair, school shootings

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Four Principles of Adult Development and Aging

Principle 1

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Changes are continuous

  • Continuity Principle: Changes in life are built on experiences from earlier in life. You cannot erase the past.
  • No causal claims
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Four Principles of Adult Development and Aging

Principle 2

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Only the survivors grow old

  • Survivor Principle: the people that grow old are the ones that didn’t die from disease of threats In life
  • Select group of people
  • includes avoiding random life threats or health threats. To grow old you can’t die.
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Four Principles of Adult Development and Aging

Principle 3

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Individuality Matters
- Inter-Individual Differences: With age, increased diversity differences BETWEEN people are magnified. There are cumulative effects of earlier life experiences
- Intra-individual Differences- Variations WITHIN the same individual.
(multi-directionality- development in multiple directions, example- losing and gaining skills over time

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Four Principles of Adult Development and Aging

Principle 4

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Normal Aging is different from disease

  • growing older is not growing sicker.
  • this is important for physicians to remember when treating older patients so they do not mistake an illness for being old.
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Primary Aging

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Normal aging over time due to intrinsic, universal and progress alterations to body’s systems
example- wrinkling

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Secondary Aging

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Impaired Aging
Changes over time due to disease
example- skin cancer

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Tertiary Aging

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Near death people experience a rapid decline in various functions

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Optimal Aging

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Changing with age that IMPROVE functioning

example- quitting smoking

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Normative Age-Graded changes

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Influence on development (social vs personal aging)
Leads people to choose experiences that their culture and historical period attach to. Certain ages or points in the life span also included
example- puberty , social norms

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Normative History-Graded

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Influence on development (social vs personal aging)
Events that most people in a specific culture experience at the same time
example- Covid

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Non-Normative

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Influence on development (social vs personal aging)
Rare or random events that may be important for a certain individual
example- winning the lottery, getting in a car crash

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Sex

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Influence on Development (Social Factor)

Sex- Biological sex, physical characteristics

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Gender

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Influence on Development (Social Factor)

Gender- Sociocultural, identity

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Ethnicity

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Influence on Development (Social Factor)

Biological and sociocultural influences

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Socioeconomic Status

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Influence on Development (Social Factor)

- education, occupation, income

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Gini-Coefficient

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Influence on Development (Socioeconomic Status)

Percentage of population accounting for wealth

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Whitehall II Investigation

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Influence on Development (Socioeconomic Status)

Survey showing that poor health is not just related to poor health habits

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Age Pyramids

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Influence on Development (Demographics)
There was a bulge in population count from the baby boomers after a dip in population count from world war II. This cause the triangle to turn upside down pyramid

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Life Expectancy

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Influence on Development  (Demographics)
- Life expectancy: the average length of life for people born in a particular time interval
- For Canadians 
Males 79.9
Females 84
Has been increasing since 1900
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Life Span

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Influence on Development (Demographics)

- Life Span: The maximum age for a given species

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Health Adjusted Life Expectancy

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Influence on Development (Demographics)
- The number of years someone cold expect to life in good health
men - 69 women - 70.5

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Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis

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Influence on Development (Demographics)

  • less of a societal burden if morbidity is closer to mortality
  • want a small gap

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